Cassandra Leah Quave, PhD is a medical ethnobotanist with research interests in the documentation and analysis of botanical remedies used in the treatment of infectious disease. She is the author of Medicina Popolare del Vulture: Traditional Medicine of the Vulture-Alto Bradano area, southern Italy. She completed her B.S. at Emory University in 2000, Ph.D. at Florida International University in 2008, postdoctoral studies at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Emory University. To date, she has published more than 40 scientific works and has been the PI on three National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. She has been involved in the Open Science Network in Ethnobiology as a core team member since 2010 and is currently the Vice President of the organization. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Ethnobiology and Conservation and on regular grant review panels for the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). She holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor with the Emory University School of Medicine Department of Dermatology and the Emory Center for the Study of Human Health in Atlanta, GA, where she leads ethnobotanical drug discovery research initiatives and teaches undergraduate courses on medicinal plants, food and health.
In addition to her current position at Emory University’s Department of Dermatology (School of Medicine) and Center for the Study of Human Health (Emory College), she also serves as CEO/CSO of PhytoTEK LLC, a start-up biotech company dedicated to R&D and eventual commercialization of novel anti-infective technologies.
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